Ontology Engineering plugins is a collection of Ontology-oriented software engineering tools.

Current tools

The current list of tools comprises two plugins for Protege and three command-line tools. The current development effort is focusing on providing GUI frontends for all CLI tools, either as standalone applications or also as plugins.

Ontology Patterns

Ontology Patterns are small ontology modules that describe general domains and may be reused in multiple programs. Unlike normal ontology modules, patterns are not normally imported but copied & adapted to a particular domain of interest. The following tools try to help develop new patterns while keeping traceability of the use of a pattern in different ontologies.

• Pattern definition plugin for Protege.
• Pattern instance generation tool.

At the moment, these tools are only available at the Mercurial repository. Mercurial is available for most operating systems, downloading the repo should be a matter of minutes. Check out TortoiseHg if you use Windows.

Watson Plugin for Protege

The Watson plugin for Protege is a small View component that performs an asynchronous search in Watson of the currently selected entity. Whenever you click on a class, property or individual, the plugin will search for that name in Watson and provide the top results. The search is performed asynchronously, so the interface is not locked after the click. The search results include a link to the website that describes the ontology, and if available, a short description of it.

The first version of this plugin is available at the "File Releases section".